[WildGreenLeave]

I fully agree with you for 100%. Personally, I don't mind the home gesture and although I sometimes get annoyed by weird gestures that I never knew I can deal with it.

But, seeing my parents get anxious with their new ipad because they cannot reliably go back to the home screen, their "safe" environment, it makes me sad.

A pro tip from your fellow young(er) person, enable AssistiveTouch [0] and at least give them an obvious button to press. My parents are very happy with it.

0: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202658

[izacus]

Assistive Touch is a bandaid I enabled, but it didn't give them the same piece of mind as a hardware button because it's "yet another thing on screen" they need to identify out of the clutter.